Bio

Allison is a computer programmer, poet, educator and game designer
whose teaching and practice address the unusual phenomena that blossom
when language and computers meet, with a focus on artificial
intelligence and computational creativity. She is an Assistant Arts
Professor at NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program, where she
earned her master's degree in 2008.

Named "Best Maker of Poetry Bots" by the Village Voice in 2016,
Allison's computer-generated poetry has recently been published in
Ninth Letter and Vetch. She is the author of "@Everyword: The Book"
(Instar, 2015), which collects the output of her popular long-term
automated writing project that tweeted every word in the English
language. The word game "Rewordable," designed by Allison in
collaboration with Adam Simon and Tim Szetela, was published by Penguin
Random House in August 2017 after a successful round of Kickstarter
funding. Her first full-length book of computer-generated poetry,
"Articulations," was published by Counterpath in 2018.

Allison is originally from West Bountiful, Utah and currently lives in
Brooklyn.